Easter is coming in less than two weeks. For me and my family, Easter was always an important, holy time. We'd often go to services that week. Good Friday was especially different, for there were a number of traditions that day. First, I think for something like 15 years of my life, I attended the peaceful demonstrations organized by Pro-Life Action Ministries in from of a Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Paul. Not only was it a demonstration, but it was a great time to pray for our country, worship God, and reflect on his sacrifice. Also, it was our tradition to spend the Noon-3pm hours, when Christ was believed to be hanging on the cross, in some quiet prayer and reflection (or at least more quiet and reflected than usual).

As I've grown older, it has gotten harder to keep these traditions. It wasn't too much of a problem during college because I went to a Roman Catholic college that did give us Good Friday and Easter Monday off of school. (Mom and Dad weren't happy one year when we went to see Switchfoot on Holy Thursday, but it had to be done.) The last couple years have been the hardest, I guess, as I have begun to work full time.

The owner of my company just announced that next Friday we're going to have a fun afternoon where we're going out for lunch and watching a movie (or something like that, I was in the bathroom while he announced it). It just so happens it's Good Friday, and even odder is that last year we watched Office Space and gorged ourselves on candy on Good Friday.

I know that I'm in a mostly non-Christian, great work environment, but when these kind of things come up, it just makes me feel wrong. How do I reconcile these types of things? Maybe I should start taking Good Friday as a personal vacation day? I'll probably just go with the flow (and remember not to have meat in my lunch), but I guess that someday I'll have to deal with bigger moral dilemmas.